Word: skittishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guardsmen, weary of the eight-week fray, wanted to go home and lick their wounds in private. Democrats also craved a respite; the charge, false or true, that their action on the tariff was largely responsible for the stockmarket crash and business uncertainty made them skittish about pressing their victories...
Runabouts, hydroplanes, outboards all had their events at Red Bank. In a final grand free-for-all for a special trophy molded from a solid gold brick, presented by Barren Collier, two drivers of skittish little outboards, encouraged by the result of the gold cup race, entered their craft on the slim hope that the hydroplanes would all tip over, fall apart or blow...
...that fall under Guedalla's category of "real." Three more are, maliciously, "ideal"-the wives of Swinburne, de Goncourt, and Henry James (he, of course, runs away from his on the first day of the honeymoon). But the "real" outclass the "ideal" in artistic creation, and prove "the skittish muse of intimate biography," Clio's charming handmaiden...
...today, Nominee Taft in 1908 was a President's hand-picked successor. Also like Hoover, he had never before run for a public executive office. With Roosevelt's aegis over his personal distinction, he easily beat Bryan. On a blizzardy 4th of March he drove, behind four skittish bay horses, to be inaugurated in the Senate Chamber...
Cruel is the possibility that the Kellogg Treaty may perhaps never be so much as ratified by the U. S. Senate-not to mention other skittish Senates...